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What first popularized valentine’s day as a romantic holiday?

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The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to record St. Valentine's Day as a day of romantic celebration in his 1375 poem “Parliament of Foules,” writing, ““For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day / Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.”

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